In the adeptly produced film Waking Ned Devine, directed by Kirk Jones, a story centred on hypocrisy, deceit, and opportunism is depicted based on the attempt of the protagonist, Jackie O’shea, to defraud a lottery company by impersonating the winner, the late Ned Divine. The theme that is developed by symbolism in the film is that greed may lead to dubious moral decisions that result in physical and psychological peril. The telephone booth which symbolizes egocentrism and opportunism clearly demonstrates
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Summary of Tim Durham’s Ponzi scheme The alleged fraud is over $200 million. Durham’s main holdings were his leveraged buyout firm Obsidian Enterprises, Inc. and Fair Financial Services, both headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. When Durham acquired Fair in a 2002 leveraged buyout, it was a factoring company that purchased accounts receivable from businesses at a discount, profiting when the accounts were paid in full. It financed its operations by selling “investment certificates” to individual
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Xerox Corporation was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York. Xerox manufactures and sells a wide range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Barry D. Romeril, Xerox’s chief financial officer (CFO) and Paul Allaire, Xerox’s chairman and corporate executive officer (CEO) were leading Xerox through a difficult period in the late
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a true and fair presentation of financial statement since they evaluate the company’s performance based on the company’s earnings which used to be the point at which the investors can make decision whether to invest or not. However, the case of fraud and manipulation in a company are still critical and need to be monitored by certain functional department as such to be the whistle blower for any irregularities that may arise in the company. In fact, over the last decade, there were various regulatory
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to do more research to see how many scandals such as these have occurred over the years before the act was created. Phar-Mor Scandal was a popular chain of drugstores in the 90’s. They were accused of mail fraud, embezzlement, bank fraud and transportation of funds received from theft or fraud. Once these illegal activities were discovered, it eventually leads to bankruptcy and over 5,000 employees out of work. Another Scandal happened with the Lehman Brothers Holding Inc, a financial service
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Counterfeiting is a growing and increasingly dangerous phenomenon. The statistics of seizures for 2007 confirm an existing trend. Counterfeited and pirated articles threaten the health and safety of EU citizens, their jobs, Community competitiveness, trade, and investment in research and innovation. In 2007, EU Customs seized more than 79 million counterfeit and pirated goods and handled more anti-counterfeiting cases than ever before. A total of more than 43 000 cases were dealt with in 2007,
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As we are all well aware, fraud on the Internet is a huge problem. Not a day passes without picking up a paper and reading of some new Net fraud scam. It would appear that Net crime appears to be groing faster than the Net, for every new dot com company appearing there appears to be a new Net criminal. With the huge impact that the Net is having on business, personal and social lives, there is a huge impetus to be a part of the dot com revolution.The world’s 2 richest men, Bill Gates and
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Assignment 2--- White Collar Crime Theories, Law, and Processes Lucas McPherson Professor Dr. Matthew Miko LEG 200 – White Collar Crime in Government, Business, and Labor December 21, 2011. 1. Explain white collar crime in terms of various theories related to criminology and crime. There are several basic theories in which white collar crime can be explained relating to criminology and crime. We must look at several concepts and behaviors and take certain metaphysical, ontological
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because the accounting fraud, manifestations and hazards start to analyze the accounting fraud of China's listed companies the motivation to find out the real causes of the accounting fraud, and through drawing and learn from foreign countries in the prevention and treatment of accounting fraud experience, to present my accounting fraud prevention and treatment response. [Keywords:] listed company; accounting fraud; Governance 1, the listed company's accounting fraud and harm the performance
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Ponzi Scheme Corporate Finance A Ponzi scheme is an illegal business practice in which new investor’s money is used to make payments to earlier investors. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses, instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity. The returns are repaid out of new investors’ principal, but not from profits. This can continue as long as new investors line
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